Live Conflict Ukraine-Russia War

[Corvus]

Footage of a Russian drone strike on a Ukrainian locomotive. The video was filmed in Kherson. Strikes against locomotives hamper the Ukrainian army's logistics. It's worth noting that such attacks have been quite common.

Is it really that difficult to make railways disfunctional? It has been years but Ukraine still manages to run the trains. I would expect railways to be the first targets in a war.

 

[Soldier30]

Footage of the destruction of the Ukrainian Lyuty and Maya UAVs by the new Russian Lis-2 interceptor drone. The video was filmed in Russia's Kursk region. The Lis-2 interceptor drone carries a 0.8 kg high-explosive fragmentation warhead. The drone is equipped with an automatic target acquisition function.

 

[Soldier30]

Is it really that difficult to make railways disfunctional? It has been years but Ukraine still manages to run the trains. I would expect railways to be the first targets in a war.

There are too many of them, and railways are quickly repaired. Military equipment is more often transported on regular roads.

 

[Spitfire9]

A Swedish view of Russia's economic situation, source UK newspaper Daily Mail

...the head of Sweden's Military Intelligence and Security Service, Thomas Nilson, now says that Russia will struggle to continue to finance its own invasion of Ukraine as the war with Kyiv enters its fifth year, leading to a 'financial disaster'.

Speaking to the Financial Times, Nilson says that Russia is 'living on borrowed time', and explains that the country's economy can only end in one of two scenarios: 'Prolonged decline or a shock. Either way, they continue their downward spiral towards financial disaster.'

'It's not a sustainable growth model to produce material for the war that is then destroyed on the battlefield,' he says, highlighting that Russia's economic faults have spread to the defence sector.

Nilson also believes that Russia is manipulating data to make Ukraine's allies believe that Russia is doing better than it is economically, despite the country being on the brink of a financial crisis.

The downward slide in Russia continues. Keep going, Putin, you can bring Russia still further down.